WITH ART

Making Music in Great Spaces


Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum
Played in the sculptural space, became "House Musician." (1985)

Spoleto, Italy
Debussy's "Syrinx" in a room created for it by Neapolitan artist Anna Sargenti. (1985)

Spoleto, Italy
Played to a Sol LeWitt sculpture in a frescoed church, catching the lines in the music. (1986)

Temple of Dendur, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
First classical artist to make music in this great space. (1989-Present)

The Great Hall at Cooper Union
Brazilian music on a specially built stage, produced by Music-Theatre Group. (1998)

P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
Luciano Berio's "Sequenza"
Minimalia: An Italian vision in 20th Century Art, organized by Incontri Internazionali d’Arte (2000)

Spoleto Festival
“Tanti Auguri al Maestro” a ballerina and flutist
In collaboration with La Compagnia Colla (2000)

MASS MoCA (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art)
Edgar Varése and J.S. Bach with Tim Hawkinson's "Überorgan"- a giant sculpture in a great space - its bellowing sounds in conversation with a flute. (2000)

Clark Art Institute
Impressionist music in the Renoir room. (2001)

Berkshire Institute for Theology and the Arts
Celebrating the Housatonic: A Concert
Music from “Places of the Spirit” with paintings by Jim Schantz (2004)

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Curator Pieranna Cavalchini
A room filled with color, a Mozart flute quartet performed every day, the room alive with music, the colors dancing. (2005)

Pucker Gallery, Boston
Places of the Spirit: The Holy Land
A trip to Israel with visual artist Jim Schantz, — a book of images and a CD of music inspired by the journey. (2008)

These projects - to be developed further - were conceived with Pieranna Cavalchini (Conceptual Art Curator and Producer), Hilde Limondjian (The Metropolitan Museum of Art), Carmela S. Haklisch (Arts Supporter and Strategic Planner), Priscilla Morgan (The Noguchi Garden Museum), Joseph Thompson (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art), Lyn Austin and Diane Wondisford (Music-Theatre Group).